Premium Sessions

In addition to the quality instruction you’ll get during workshops and general sessions, we offer three premium sessions for you to spend quality time with experts who will help you grow in very specifically targeted skills.These three...

Maranatha Bible And Missionary Conference

Described in a local newspaper as one of Michigan’s best-kept secrets, the Maranatha Christian Writers’ Conference is held every fall on the campus of the Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conference. This land was purchased over one...

Choosing to attend a Writers’ Conference

From Lissa Halls Johnson, author, editor, and 2014 faculty member: Whenever fledgling writers come for help in becoming a writer, I always, always tell them the most valuable thing they can do is attend a writer’s conference. There...

National Editors & Personal Attention

Whether you want to improve your writing skills, find a publisher, or explore the brave new world of publishing, join us at the 2014 Maranatha Christian Writers’ Conference, September 15-18. Our faculty provides the individual attention and...

Invest in Your Writing & Yourself on Lake Michigan’s Shore

In the seventy-five years that Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conference has maintained this facility on Lake Michigan, hundreds of evangelists and Christian organizations have gathered under the tall oaks and maples. As he began his ministry,...

Why Attend This Conference in 2014?

If you can attend only one writers’ conference this year, why should the Maranatha Christian Writers’ Conference be the one?

First, this conference recognizes the rapidly changing nature of today’s publishing world, and equips you to prosper in it. This year’s theme, “Every Writer Needs a Team,” reflects that. Gone are the days when you can simply search for a publishing house to partner with you and expect them to do everything except the writing itself. In today’s economy, publishers have neither the staff nor the budget to do as much for you. You’ll have to do more yourself—so you need a team of experienced professionals to advise and serve you in the areas you don’t yet have the know-how, skills, or time to do for yourself. Not only can we help you find the members of your team, but you’ll meet many of them here and chat with them face to face.

“If you even think you would like to write but don’t know how or where to begin, here is your answer. MCWC presents a broad spectrum of techniques, structure, and ideas. The teachers are Christ-centered, professional, knowledgeable and very helpful. You’ll like it.”

Directions

"A writer sits before a stack of empty pages as God stood before an empty world. It is an awesome privilege—to participate with God in the creative act. Those empty pages represent our earth, the world of our not-yet-born story, formless and empty. And we have the opportunity to create on those pages a world filled with light and life. A world that mirrors and interprets for our readers God’s creation so long ago, that explains and organizes meaning and insight and emotion. That points the way. We have the privilege of becoming secondary creators who draw our readers closer to the Original Creator." David Lambert, from the Christian Writers Guild’s fiction curriculum, lesson one Learn More